Comment & Opinion

In September 2024, automated computer systems flagged more than 400,000 people who were potentially wrongly receiving Social Security checks. Employee...

NEW YORK (TNS) — Bowling has seen better days. Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp., the dominant player in the business, has lost nearly half of its mark...

Artificial intelligence conjures up many feelings. For some, AI technology is a doomsday scenario: killer robots, job loss, and data centers. Yet for ...

(TNS) — Commercial shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has collapsed. Before the war with Iran, approximately 125 commercial vessels passed ...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The Supreme Court’s decision blocking the Trump plan to use the Post Office to screen mail ballot applications has removed one of t...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “urgently” needs to “avoid further waste of taxpayer dollars” resulting from misguided purchases, according t...

Former U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb has read more Pennsylvania polling than almost anyone who isn’t paid to, probably because, for nearly a decade, that was a...

After three columns about what communities risk losing when they stop supporting local journalism, it is time to talk about the people who have not st...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (TNS) — Been thinking about my use of social media as it pertains to my kids. And AI. And whether I messed up, and what to do about it...

Federal disaster money meant to rebuild homes destroyed by Hurricane Sandy instead helped finance a contractor’s Lamborghini, Porsche, Jaguar and real...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — What if we got it all wrong? That’s the question that usually goes through my mind at this point in every election cycle. Because 2...

(TNS) — Covering the recent round of AI apocalypse warnings, I’ve tried to reject this cult-like deference toward all-powerful computer systems and th...

National Newspaper Week is a time to celebrate what newspapers contribute to their communities. It is also a good time to talk about what it takes to ...

The consistent pattern of Judge John Cleland’s political utterance reminds me of another unostentatious rural public servant of grace and depth, who a...

It’s ironic that the mode of transportation so prominently featured in Atlas Shrugged is now so dependent on government largesse. On Thursday, Brightl...

Federal agencies spent the past two years deep cleaning their offices, throwing away $10 billion worth of inventory ranging from bandages to airplanes...

One of America's most interesting experiments with artificial intelligence is happening in the Lehigh Valley's Northampton County as data center polit...

When someone in a position of power moves to punish or shut out independent reporting, it's often viewed as another media story — an argument between ...

Editor’s note: October is National Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month. Learn more about the McKean County SPCA at mckspca.org . We were heartbroken after the l...

A letter in The Era's Sept. 10 edition got me thinking. At a time when our country desperately needs to come together, I was troubled by the way Democ...